My son has been playing (or trying to play) and can barely do anything. I keep asking him why he plays if it is not any fun and he keeps telling me it will get better any second.
I had fun sitting in org with a search window open for hellfire peninsula, watching people log in there and then get disconnected over and over. I hope it’s better tonight but I doubt it will be. it could get better any second however ;P
I heard that Blizzard caused the sleet storms in Texas with their weather machine so schools would close and everyone would stay home and play WoW. That’s what the internet told me.
If it’s any comfort, when the lag subsides to more or less playable levels (ie less than 2 seconds of delay on an instant action), you’ll find you’re competing with at least 500 people for the same bunch of 10 quest mobs (which, at least, all have a fast respawn rate).
And then there’s the recurring flashback from the newbie times – you keep getting tells asking you for directions for stuff in plain sight. There’s a quest asking you to mark four towers, three of them being positionned so that from each of them you can clearly see the other two even with your graphical settings set to the minimum. You will get asked about the position of any one of those three towers about once every two minutes by people who either forgot how to do anything without reading up 20 posts of directions on Allakhazam or must have purchased their level 60 toons.
On the other hand, and somewhat to my surprise, the new starting areas for Draenei and Blood Elves are far from overloaded, regardless of whether you’re on a totally full server or a brand new one opened on the 16th. If any of the new races / class combo interests you even in the least, I recommend this as an alternative to the totally overloaded Hellfire Peninsula.
Plus, the blood elf starting area is absolutely gorgeous.
Can’t say I’ve experienced any of the Glorious Lag (PBUH) on Lightninghoof. Then again, that it’s a middle-population server could have something to do with it.
No lag here. lrn2transfere
Took the hint myself and moved 6 of my stagnate 60′s to Arathor. I still have my laughing skull toons rotting on LS,but since i have alwayes felt that open pvp servers are poorly structured ,i do not care if they disinetigrate. People who sit in org STILL need some therapy. A few of us left behind our old servers for the beliefe of a new beginning…but it seems people named Tampax,Iwtfpwnjuu,Saltand pepper are going to follow you everywhere you go. Its Counterstrike with better graphics. I would love a server where outright stupidity was not tollerated….but then i would find myself thrown off for the same reason im sure. Months of TBC beta and now Live TBC have made the game more fun, i jsut wish the bastards hadn’t removed my 1 1/2 of rested
You hate people, too. Lag + people = even worse. I won’t touch the high-level content for at least a week or two, but the blood elf starting lands are surprisingly nice. Laggy, yes, but the game play – the feel of the lands – is somehow refreshingly new.
“On the other hand, and somewhat to my surprise, the new starting areas for Draenei and Blood Elves are far from overloaded, regardless of whether you’re on a totally full server or a brand new one opened on the 16th. If any of the new races / class combo interests you even in the least, I recommend this as an alternative to the totally overloaded Hellfire Peninsula.”
Heh maybe on your server(s) but on mine both starting areas are wayyyyyyyyyyyyy overcrowded. This has all the side effects that are in outlands atm (people overcamping quest mobs) without the benefit of them spawning fast. There are also about 5million shamans and paladins now.
What irritates me in both Outlands and the new areas is we get the quests to kill X amount of mobs, and instead of 5 people teaming up and killing those mobs they all stay solo and multiply the number of total mobs needed to be killed by 5. which not only slows me down but themselves as well.
Basically people are generally stupid and selfish.
Frankly given that my holy spec has trouble doing anything solo I figure I’ll grind instances all way to 70. Quests be damned.
The instance servers least for my server have yet to fail. I watched everyone in the guild who wasn’t with me get dropped over and over. I mocked them from the nice stable instance. Trick is to hop out, reset and hop back in between crashes.
Haven’t seen much lag, which opened the door for lots and lots of competition for spawns.
The amusing part is, Blizzard has the spawn rates cranked up so high right now, many mobs will respawn as soon as they get killed. Fight your way into an area and manage to have no one around you for 5 seconds.. you just might have half a dozen red orcs suddenly come out of nowhere and pound you into a pancake. Only had to happen once before I retrained myself to pull a mob well out of the way.
My server’s been pretty stable.. but I have a bad feeling that’s going to change Friday evening.
Good suggestion, Caldaren. Considering I’ve already upgraded my last two Beaststalker pieces with quest rewards (& would have upgraded my Dwarven Hand Cannon if the XBow reward had been just a little better…or a gun and considering I’m having no trouble taking down lvl 60 & 61 Mobs on my own, I might head for Zangarmarsh…I just hope you’re not yanking my chain and I’m not about to run into Lvl ?? Elites
The first night on Korgath was rough. Last night was pretty easy going though. It wasn’t particularly laggy and I was able to accomplish quite a bit.
But really, like xaldin said, if you just want to catass your way to 70 and avoid all the hassles of dealing with over/under spawning mobs, fighting for kills, etc. stick to instances. The experience you get is great and there is no lag at all.
No lag whatsoever on my server. Yes, you’re competing for spawns on SOME of the quests, but if that’s not you’re thing then abandon that quest and move on.
All in all, an A+ to Blizzard for the smoothest expansion release I’ve ever seen. *shrug*
It’s been a smooth ride on my server so far. The new stuff is crowded and the chat channels make my brain try to crawl out of my head, but there’s been almost no lag and no trouble logging in, so I’m happy and pretty amazed at how well it’s gone. It looks like everyone who wanted the expansion was able to get it, too, unlike the original game which was pretty scarce on shelves even months after it was released.
As an added bonus, my midlevel characters have zones almost entirely to themselves now.
It’s probably your ISP. Did you try running a traceroute?
You might also want to scandisk and defrag, if you haven’t done that recently.
Finally, ensure you aren’t running anything in the background which would utilize precious system resources, such as WordPerfect, dBaseIII, Lotus123, The Print Shop, etc.
We’re looking at mostly 60-62s, with a couple of 63s. Telredor brings back faint memories of Kelethin, with skeletons replacing the corpses of the newbs who took a wrong turn on those wooden bridges.
You’re not going to get those quest rewards people are linking in Hellfire general…but it’s nice…and quiet…and blue…and did I mention the quiet? Even better, head south from Cenarion Expedition or Refuge or whatnot and get to Shattrath.
Someone, too lazy to look it up, had the whole “What MMO player archetype do you fit into?” survey. I’d be curious to know what WoW’s population falls into on that particular scale, as opposed to the general MMO population pre-WoW. From what I’ve seen the last couple of days…there aren’t many explorers in that population.
My server lagged hard and crashed last night not once, but twice. It was part of the 7pm rolling restart chain for the Nightfall battlegroup. When they came back online, they crashed once more. At that point I think a majority of the playerbase decided to give up for the night, so I actually came back on around 11pm EST and got a chance to clean up some quests.
I’m in the same boat as Georgia. At 7pm, Icecrown (or Icedown as we all say) went down for a rolling restart. When it came up the second time, most people had given up and I could actually craft a bit in Exodar w/o much trouble.
The solution to the lag is the server splits. Icecrown seems to be destined for one as we had open server transfers and not many left. For my guild it’s hard. We’re the oldest guild on the server and have 300+ members, so organizing a server transfer would be hellish. Hopefully if they force the split on us, it’ll go better.
I took the week off…yea stfu.
But I couldn’t play during peak hours. I had to log out at 6pm and wait till around 12am for the kids to goto bed. I was getting killed and seeing it 5 mins later.
Then I stayed up till 7am playing…woke up at 5pm the next day.
Good luck getting up for 6am next week.
On Aman’thul everything has been smooth sailing, no lag in any area that I have been in (Hellfire and BE start area). I have seen some silly antics camping quest mobs, and barrens chat seems to have migrated to the BE area. But I have never seen anything so smooth as this expansion, hell I have seen normal patches wreak more havoc then I have seen with this.
I’m just continuing to PVP and collect honor points. It’s working for me. I’ll head to Outlands in a few days, and maybe things will have settled down a little by then. If not, back to PVP or levelling my druid alt. I’m not interested in rushing through an expansion when it will be at least a year before the next one anyway.
about 3 years ago
My son has been playing (or trying to play) and can barely do anything. I keep asking him why he plays if it is not any fun and he keeps telling me it will get better any second.
about 3 years ago
I had fun sitting in org with a search window open for hellfire peninsula, watching people log in there and then get disconnected over and over. I hope it’s better tonight but I doubt it will be. it could get better any second however ;P
about 3 years ago
I’m about a week before I attempt to play WoW again. In the mean time, I rolled a new UO character. Seriously.
about 3 years ago
I heard that Blizzard caused the sleet storms in Texas with their weather machine so schools would close and everyone would stay home and play WoW. That’s what the internet told me.
about 3 years ago
If it’s any comfort, when the lag subsides to more or less playable levels (ie less than 2 seconds of delay on an instant action), you’ll find you’re competing with at least 500 people for the same bunch of 10 quest mobs (which, at least, all have a fast respawn rate).
And then there’s the recurring flashback from the newbie times – you keep getting tells asking you for directions for stuff in plain sight. There’s a quest asking you to mark four towers, three of them being positionned so that from each of them you can clearly see the other two even with your graphical settings set to the minimum. You will get asked about the position of any one of those three towers about once every two minutes by people who either forgot how to do anything without reading up 20 posts of directions on Allakhazam or must have purchased their level 60 toons.
On the other hand, and somewhat to my surprise, the new starting areas for Draenei and Blood Elves are far from overloaded, regardless of whether you’re on a totally full server or a brand new one opened on the 16th. If any of the new races / class combo interests you even in the least, I recommend this as an alternative to the totally overloaded Hellfire Peninsula.
Plus, the blood elf starting area is absolutely gorgeous.
about 3 years ago
Can’t say I’ve experienced any of the Glorious Lag (PBUH) on Lightninghoof. Then again, that it’s a middle-population server could have something to do with it.
UO lag was far more debilitating and frequent.
about 3 years ago
No lag here. lrn2transfere
Took the hint myself and moved 6 of my stagnate 60′s to Arathor. I still have my laughing skull toons rotting on LS,but since i have alwayes felt that open pvp servers are poorly structured ,i do not care if they disinetigrate. People who sit in org STILL need some therapy. A few of us left behind our old servers for the beliefe of a new beginning…but it seems people named Tampax,Iwtfpwnjuu,Saltand pepper are going to follow you everywhere you go. Its Counterstrike with better graphics. I would love a server where outright stupidity was not tollerated….but then i would find myself thrown off for the same reason im sure. Months of TBC beta and now Live TBC have made the game more fun, i jsut wish the bastards hadn’t removed my 1 1/2 of rested
about 3 years ago
You hate people, too. Lag + people = even worse. I won’t touch the high-level content for at least a week or two, but the blood elf starting lands are surprisingly nice. Laggy, yes, but the game play – the feel of the lands – is somehow refreshingly new.
about 3 years ago
This is why I don’t play online games anymore.
about 3 years ago
“On the other hand, and somewhat to my surprise, the new starting areas for Draenei and Blood Elves are far from overloaded, regardless of whether you’re on a totally full server or a brand new one opened on the 16th. If any of the new races / class combo interests you even in the least, I recommend this as an alternative to the totally overloaded Hellfire Peninsula.”
Heh maybe on your server(s) but on mine both starting areas are wayyyyyyyyyyyyy overcrowded. This has all the side effects that are in outlands atm (people overcamping quest mobs) without the benefit of them spawning fast. There are also about 5million shamans and paladins now.
What irritates me in both Outlands and the new areas is we get the quests to kill X amount of mobs, and instead of 5 people teaming up and killing those mobs they all stay solo and multiply the number of total mobs needed to be killed by 5. which not only slows me down but themselves as well.
Basically people are generally stupid and selfish.
about 3 years ago
Err. C’mon, folks. This is supposed to be old hat by now.
Bypass the entrance zone and move on. Zangarmarsh is beautiful, the quests readily accessible, and much less laggy than Hellfire.
Honestly, it’s worth it for the peace in general chat alone.
about 3 years ago
Frankly given that my holy spec has trouble doing anything solo I figure I’ll grind instances all way to 70. Quests be damned.
The instance servers least for my server have yet to fail. I watched everyone in the guild who wasn’t with me get dropped over and over. I mocked them from the nice stable instance. Trick is to hop out, reset and hop back in between crashes.
about 3 years ago
Haven’t seen much lag, which opened the door for lots and lots of competition for spawns.
The amusing part is, Blizzard has the spawn rates cranked up so high right now, many mobs will respawn as soon as they get killed. Fight your way into an area and manage to have no one around you for 5 seconds.. you just might have half a dozen red orcs suddenly come out of nowhere and pound you into a pancake. Only had to happen once before I retrained myself to pull a mob well out of the way.
My server’s been pretty stable.. but I have a bad feeling that’s going to change Friday evening.
about 3 years ago
Good suggestion, Caldaren. Considering I’ve already upgraded my last two Beaststalker pieces with quest rewards (& would have upgraded my Dwarven Hand Cannon if the XBow reward had been just a little better…or a gun
and considering I’m having no trouble taking down lvl 60 & 61 Mobs on my own, I might head for Zangarmarsh…I just hope you’re not yanking my chain and I’m not about to run into Lvl ?? Elites 
about 3 years ago
The first night on Korgath was rough. Last night was pretty easy going though. It wasn’t particularly laggy and I was able to accomplish quite a bit.
But really, like xaldin said, if you just want to catass your way to 70 and avoid all the hassles of dealing with over/under spawning mobs, fighting for kills, etc. stick to instances. The experience you get is great and there is no lag at all.
about 3 years ago
No lag whatsoever on my server. Yes, you’re competing for spawns on SOME of the quests, but if that’s not you’re thing then abandon that quest and move on.
All in all, an A+ to Blizzard for the smoothest expansion release I’ve ever seen. *shrug*
about 3 years ago
It’s been a smooth ride on my server so far. The new stuff is crowded and the chat channels make my brain try to crawl out of my head, but there’s been almost no lag and no trouble logging in, so I’m happy and pretty amazed at how well it’s gone. It looks like everyone who wanted the expansion was able to get it, too, unlike the original game which was pretty scarce on shelves even months after it was released.
As an added bonus, my midlevel characters have zones almost entirely to themselves now.
about 3 years ago
It’s probably your ISP. Did you try running a traceroute?
You might also want to scandisk and defrag, if you haven’t done that recently.
Finally, ensure you aren’t running anything in the background which would utilize precious system resources, such as WordPerfect, dBaseIII, Lotus123, The Print Shop, etc.
about 3 years ago
Nah, I’m not yanking your chain.
We’re looking at mostly 60-62s, with a couple of 63s. Telredor brings back faint memories of Kelethin, with skeletons replacing the corpses of the newbs who took a wrong turn on those wooden bridges.
You’re not going to get those quest rewards people are linking in Hellfire general…but it’s nice…and quiet…and blue…and did I mention the quiet? Even better, head south from Cenarion Expedition or Refuge or whatnot and get to Shattrath.
Someone, too lazy to look it up, had the whole “What MMO player archetype do you fit into?” survey. I’d be curious to know what WoW’s population falls into on that particular scale, as opposed to the general MMO population pre-WoW. From what I’ve seen the last couple of days…there aren’t many explorers in that population.
about 3 years ago
My server lagged hard and crashed last night not once, but twice. It was part of the 7pm rolling restart chain for the Nightfall battlegroup. When they came back online, they crashed once more. At that point I think a majority of the playerbase decided to give up for the night, so I actually came back on around 11pm EST and got a chance to clean up some quests.
about 3 years ago
I’m in the same boat as Georgia. At 7pm, Icecrown (or Icedown as we all say) went down for a rolling restart. When it came up the second time, most people had given up and I could actually craft a bit in Exodar w/o much trouble.
The solution to the lag is the server splits. Icecrown seems to be destined for one as we had open server transfers and not many left. For my guild it’s hard. We’re the oldest guild on the server and have 300+ members, so organizing a server transfer would be hellish. Hopefully if they force the split on us, it’ll go better.
about 3 years ago
I took the week off…yea stfu.
But I couldn’t play during peak hours. I had to log out at 6pm and wait till around 12am for the kids to goto bed. I was getting killed and seeing it 5 mins later.
Then I stayed up till 7am playing…woke up at 5pm the next day.
Good luck getting up for 6am next week.
I’m really liking the Zangamarsh (sp?) area.
about 3 years ago
On Aman’thul everything has been smooth sailing, no lag in any area that I have been in (Hellfire and BE start area). I have seen some silly antics camping quest mobs, and barrens chat seems to have migrated to the BE area. But I have never seen anything so smooth as this expansion, hell I have seen normal patches wreak more havoc then I have seen with this.
about 3 years ago
Instances tend to be alot less laggy, easy to run, decent xp, fast, and fun (if you can stand grouping with others.)
about 3 years ago
I know this is a bit unrelated, but you could always play “NWN” and relive the glory days before AOL shut it down.
http://www.forgottenworld.com
about 3 years ago
I’m just continuing to PVP and collect honor points. It’s working for me. I’ll head to Outlands in a few days, and maybe things will have settled down a little by then. If not, back to PVP or levelling my druid alt. I’m not interested in rushing through an expansion when it will be at least a year before the next one anyway.